Lynching: the punishment as a restitution of the order

Abstract

The current article proposes a reflexion around the lynch practice while a colective behavior that occurs in the Brazilian society and also invites us to explore in our own analysis the simbolycal dimension of the lynching, in other words, the current motivations in the colective conscious of the Brazilian society that contributes with the existence of such act. Therefore, we admit that the society uses the lynching practice protected by the idea of a social cosmology  that must be sustained and ensured, what guarantee that your sociability references doesn’t get damaged. We brought as an example a lynching case ocurred in Brazil, in order to learn troughout the amounts of speeches that emerge about the case, what is the community perception and how the same behaves before this kind of situation. The data and the informations about the case are taken of the press.